NSFW: The Videogame Adverts and Commercials of Yore Thread

[gjones]

I perused the earlier pages of this thread and enjoyed all the lewd adverts from the late 90s. I did upload a bunch of forgotten SEGA adverts from Viz magazine to a retro site called Racketboy about a decade ago, but I'll add them here too (as they are similarly outlandish). These are in line with the humour of Viz, but still surprising to see SEGA attacking that adult audience so aggressively. Enjoy!

[KingK]

Wow

[Tomous]

Imagine the (rightful) uproar if some tried that today

[Dual]

Mega Seedy

[Victor Mildew]

That street fighter one makes no sense at all, it's not even making a tasteless joke based on the game, it's just LOL U CALLIN ME GAY M8

[Vermilion]

Someone should post those on resetera, they'd have a complete gooseberry fool fit over them.

[Venom]

I love this thread. It's the contrast in these old ads of what was perfectly acceptable then, playing into the emerging lads/young adult market with its edgy humour, and then how now that is just not okay whether it be for taste, seediness, misogyny or anti-gay sentiment.


That Streetfighter 2 one!

That street fighter one makes no sense at all, it's not even making a tasteless joke based on the game, it's just LOL U CALLIN ME GAY M8

The ad is simulating fighting-game banter. The meaning is that Bison is less masculine for being 'a puff'. And Blanka's line is a backward follow-up insult that possibly plays into the growing conversation/awareness amongst young people that being gay isn't a negative.

[kazanova_Frankenstein]

A twisted "love Is" Master System advert! Incredible stuff.

[Lagamorph]

I actually like the Ecco one

[KK]

Gremlin, the second advert in this thread with a typo in it.

[Pedz]

Didn't realise David Cameron wrote the ads.

[Samuel_1]

That's not what I expect from Nintendo at all...

[jawa2]

From the 80s...

twitter.com/CommodoreFormat/status/1358020595569590275

. "Zelda's bedroom" .

[KK]

Looks more like Inspector Clouseau.

[Skarjo]

Is that what 27 year olds looked like in the 80s?

[kazanova_Frankenstein]

Is that what 27 year olds looked like in the 80s?

This was my first thought. That and “oh cool, Roger Frames has a Twitter account”.

[KK]

[Zilnad]

[kazanova_Frankenstein]

Hidden & Dangerous Probably the last game i bought on PC.

[jawa2]

I'd forgotten just how bad much of the games (and other) advertising was in the late 90s and early 2000s. Looking back at it now, it's pretty embarrassing; but sometimes kinda funny in a "I can't believe they printed stuff like that" way. I guess that so much media was wrapped up in the "lads mags" type of thinking. It's odd as the rise of "girl power" seemed to co-exist at the same time; I can see that maybe the "lads" stuff may have been a factor in women wanting to push back against the abusive tone of this advertising and editorial.

[/serious]